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Eastern Nazarene seniors close
careers with 6-3 victory.
April 23,
2008. Quincy, Mass.-
Eastern Nazarene seniors Billy Stephens (Quincy,
Mass.) and Matt Kauffman (Simpsonville, SC)
had nearly identical results today as each won a point
in doubles for the Crusaders while their singles matches
ended with a 10-5 super-set tie breaker. The only
difference is that Kauffman's ended in a loss 6-4, 3-6
(5-10) at # 5 singles and Stephen's a win 4-6, 6-4
(10-5) at #1 singles.
The crucial point in the match for the Crusaders though
was at #4 singles as SO Tyler Restrick (Bel Air, MD)
won the decisive fifth point .
Eastern Nazarene edged out by Suffolk,
5-4.
April 22,
2008. Quincy, Mass.-
Eastern Nazarene played strongly in one half of the
match today, and did not live up to expectations in the
other half.
While teaming up effectively in doubles today, winning 3
of 3 doubles matches, the Crusaders were only able to
pick up 1 of the 6 singles matches and fell to the Rams
5-4 on the Crusader courts today.
Senior Matt Kauffman
(Simpsonville, SC) was the only Crusader who won at
both singles, #5 6-3 / 6-1, and doubles 8-3, as he
teamed up with SO Michael Chan (Quincy, Mass.).
Other wise, the Rams
made up for their doubles losses by winning the five
other singles matches.
Eastern Nazarene faces
UMass-Dartmouth, Wednesday April 23rd back on the
Crusader courts at 3:30 pm.
Go Crusaders!!!
Eastern Nazarene facing TCCC's top
brass.
April 15,
2008. Quincy, Mass.-
Eastern Nazarene was shut down, 9-0, by the TCCC third place
Roger Williams on Tuesday afternoon.
Crusader JR Jack Sahlman (Burlington,
Conn) played an outstanding match at third singles as he lost 7-6
(4) / 7-5 giving a Hawk SO Kyle Baker (Bolton, Conn.)
a run for his money. In a match consisting of long
volley's and shots landing inches from the baselines, Sahlman showed a strong quality of play
vs. one of the TCCC top teams.
Eastern Nazarane plays again
tomorrow, April 16th vs. Wentworth at the Winsor School
(directions:
http://www.winsor.edu/the_school/directions.aspx )
at 6:30 pm. Roger Williams is home to Nichols
College on Thursday, April 17 at 4:00 pm.
Eastern Nazarene
squeezed to fourth straight loss.
April 14,
2008. Dudely, Mass.-
Eastern Nazarene fell to Nichols College Monday in The
Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC)play by the score of
7-2. The Crusaders SR Matthew Kauffman
(Simpsonville, SC) won at 5th singles 7-5, 7-5 and
SR Billy Stephens (Quincy, Mass.) along with SO
Jordan Corbin (Fallston, MD) won at 3rd doubles
8-6.
While the Crusaders
dropped today's result, this may have been the closest
match of the season. Four of their seven losses
were narrow defeats. In 1st, 2nd and 3rd singles,
the matches went to three sets with the Bison out
dueling the Crusaders down the stretch. In 2nd
doubles, JR Michael Chan (Quincy, Mass.) and Matt
Kauffman fell to the Bison 8-6.
Eastern Nazarene
hosts Roger Williams University Tuesday, April 15th at
3:30 pm.
Eastern Nazarene beats Gordon, 6-3.
April 7, 2008. Quincy, Mass. The Eastern
Nazarene College Crusaders forged a strong victory over
a tough Gordon College Scot team this afternoon in The
Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) action. The
Crusaders swept all three doubles matches and split the
six singles matches to improve to 4-5 overall and 1-1 in
the TCCC, while Gordon falls to 2-10 and 0-4 in the TCCC.
Crusaders Coach Popa commented that "the Scot's are
better than their record might appear", and that, "this
is an important win in conference."
Captain and senior Billy Stephens (Quincy, Mass.)
won in first singles 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) to lead the
Crusaders while junior Jack Sahlman (Burlington, CT)
and SR Matt Kauffman (Simpsonville, SC) were able
to win comfortably in two sets.
Freshman Andrew Van Rheenen (Warminster, PA) was
able to win at second singles as FR Dan Cormier
(Ipswich, Mass.) and FR Scott Pichard (Coto de
Caza, Califwere) able to pick up the Scot's second
and third points at fourth and fifth singles.
Eastern Nazarene travels to Salve Regina University for
more TCCC action on Wednesday April 9th and
Gordon is at TCCC opponent Colby-Sawyer on the same
date.
Eastern
Nazarene snaps drought with UMass-Boston with 6-3 triumph.
April 3rd, 2008. Quincy, Mass. - Over
a decade had past since Eastern Nazarene was able to
topple the Beacon's of UMass-Boston on the courts.
The depth in the squad this year was the difference in
the win column. Last year while coming close in a
5-4 loss, the Crusaders finally were able to turn the
table this year. While not able to win at first or
second singles, neither first doubles, the Crusaders won at
third, fourth, fifth and sixth singles, as well as first
and second doubles breaking the long standing losing
streak with their neighboring Dorchester, Mass.
opponents for their third match win of the season.
The performance of the day came from JR Jack Sahlman
(Burlington, Conn.) as he won at third singles in a two set tie-breaker for
the Crusaders 6-4, 5-7 (10-4), putting the icing on the
cake for an outstanding Crusader team effort.
Eastern Nazarene's
JR Matt Woodley (Setauket, NY)
was able to win in 5th singles and 3rd doubles and SR Matt Kauffman (Simpsonville, SC) in 6th
singles and 2nd doubles as the two helped account for
four of the six points the Crusaders would score today.
ENC hosts Univ. of Mass.-Dartmouth Friday, April
4th in Quincy, Mass. while UMB faces Univ. of
Southern Maine on Saturday, April 5th in Dorchester,
Mass.
Eastern Nazarene falls to Western New
England in TCCC play.
April 2nd, 2008. Springfield,
Mass. Crusaders open The
Commonwealth Coast Conference season dropping the
decision 9-0 loss to Golden Bears.
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